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The London and North Western Railway, at one point in time, was the largest joint stock-company in the United Kingdom. It was a large carrier of goods such as coal, slate, and agricultural products, and as such had a need for a heavy freight engine. This long lineage began in 1893 with the Class A 0-8-0s. Francis William Webb designed these engines with a three-cylinder compound arrangement, and 111 were built between then and 1900 at Crewe works. However, the compounding system proved problematic, and all of the class were rebuilt into various other classes. Next came the B class in 1900, another Webb design, with 170 of these engines being built from 1900 to 1904. These were built with a four-cylinder arrangement, making them more powerful than their Class A predecessors. The As and Bs would be rebuilt by Webb's subsequent successors George Whale and Charles Bowen-Cook into a myriad of other classes, which would be rebuilt themselves into classes C, C1, D, E, F, G, and G1, with addition examples of classes G2 and G2a being built new by H.P Beames shortly before Grouping. The only engines to survive for any significant period of time were the later Beames built and rebuilt G2 and G2a classes, which were collectively were referred to as "Super Ds," and were the only members of these classes to be inherited by British Railways upon Nationalization. The LMS set about quickly withdrawing the C, D, C1, E, F, and G engines by the end of the 1920s and early 30s. The last G2s and G2As were gone by 1964, but G2 number 49395 is preserved as a part of the National Collection, where it presently resides at NRM Locomotion Shildon.

Original C Class by with added details by me.

Description
The London and North Western Railway, at one point in time, was the largest joint stock-company in the United Kingdom. It was a large carrier of goods such as coal, slate, and agricultural products, and as such had a need for a heavy freight engine. This long lineage began in 1893 with the Class A 0-8-0s. Francis William Webb designed these engines with a three-cylinder compound arrangement, and 111 were built between then and 1900 at Crewe works. However, the compounding system proved problematic, and all of the class were rebuilt into various other classes. Next came the B class in 1900, another Webb design, with 170 of these engines being built from 1900 to 1904. These were built with a four-cylinder arrangement, making them more powerful than their Class A predecessors. The As and Bs would be rebuilt by Webb's subsequent successors George Whale and Charles Bowen-Cook into a myriad of other classes, which would be rebuilt themselves into classes C, C1, D, E, F, G, and G1, with addition examples of classes G2 and G2a being built new by H.P Beames shortly before Grouping. The only engines to survive for any significant period of time were the later Beames built and rebuilt G2 and G2a classes, which were collectively were referred to as "Super Ds," and were the only members of these classes to be inherited by British Railways upon Nationalization. The LMS set about quickly withdrawing the C, D, C1, E, F, and G engines by the end of the 1920s and early 30s. The last G2s and G2As were gone by 1964, but G2 number 49395 is preserved as a part of the National Collection, where it presently resides at NRM Locomotion Shildon.

Original C Class by with added details by me.